To want all 3 bedrooms on the same floor?

[McFrostyNuts]

Ok, so my partner and I and wanting to buy a 2 bed bungalow, do it up and sell on. It needs complete re-decoration, new kitchen, bathroom, carpets (you get the idea). It does have a partial loft conversion, but its not 'official' so can't be called a bedroom, and quite frankly, its been done crudely and will need ripping our and starting again anyway. We would put an extension on the back to make a bigger kitchen/day space.

Heres the problem. My partner wants to keep the bedroom upstairs and the 2 downstairs, but I think its really important to keep the bedrooms together in order to maximise our market when selling.

With the extension, it would be easy to turn the lounge into the third bedroom, the dinning room would turn into the lounge and lead onto the extension where the kitchen and new dinning space would be.

Is it unreasonable to think that families, especially with young children, wouldn't want a child on there own upstairs, or both children on their own downstairs? Or am I just being precious?

What would you use he left space for if not a bedroom? Can you do a master with ensuite?

I'm really surprised that so many people dismiss houses with bedrooms on different floors so quickly.

Our house is a < layout, built on a hill. So 3 levels but only 2 stories iyswim. We have a bedroom on each level and it works well for us and has done from babies to teenagers.

Keeps me fit too as the kitchen in at the bottom and the lounge at the top!

My parents had a dormer bungalow from the time I was six or seven. I slept upstairs, they slept downstairs. I used to complain that they were too noisy as their bathroom and bedroom was under mine.

We extended a 2 bed bungalow and have 2 beds upstairs and 2 downstairs, if works because they're all off a central hallway/ stairs and I can hear if anything happens and the kids call from the rooms below.

I know it might put some off buying the house, but it works quite well.

Victorian terrace- bedrooms on attic and 1st floor, living areas ground floor and basement. Maximises space for a small footprint house.

We have a loft bedroom, never thought of it as an issue. Plan to use it as our suite once the children are older. I suppose for us it's not a problem as we have three beds on the first floor which is enough for us all to have one.

We dismissed a beautiful dorma bungalow with large kitchen living room extension last year because two bedrooms, which would end up being children's rooms, would be downstairs and at the front. I'm now 38 weeks pregnant and so pleased we did as I can't imagine putting a LO downstairs from me. Even the thought of being at the top of a 3 storey house away from chn makes me nervous. Of course that's only if you would be marketing it to young families of course.

We are in a townhouse so DC's are top floor and we are middle. It works for us. But, who usually buys bungalows? In my experience the elderly or disabled.

The elderly probably don't really need 3 bedrooms and a disabled family possibly won't want a bedroom upstairs - of course it's unlikely they would all be disabled so this might not actually be an issue.

An elderly couple/person would probably want more living space but might appreciate a third bedroom for guests in which case won't mind it being out of the way.

You have lots to think about and I don't think either answer is wrong or right really.

We have 7 bedrooms over two floors. Currently on the same floor as the kids but when they hit secondary school we plan to move to the top floor and set it up as a suite of rooms. It might appeal to a family with older kids.

• three floors. Townhouse. One on ground floor then 3 each on the 1st and 2nd floors.

I live in a concerted bungalow. The loft was enormous and converted into 3 bedrooms. There is another bedroom and a bathroom downstairs, no upstairs bathroom. If I'd done the conversion I'd have put a bathroom upstairs. It's not a perfect layout but I bought it when I was of and had young DC because it was very close to a good primary and secondary school, was down a quiet road, good parking, decent sized garden and was affordable in what is an expensive town. I think the affordability was partly due to not quite perfect layout and bungalow, which people tend not to like.
So my round the houses point is that you'll sell it if layout isn't perfect but location is and if it's competitively priced. If not, you might struggle.
All my neighbours are old, so these houses tend to attract retired people more than young families. I kind of think it might be an advantage to have a bedroom on the ground floor in that if we are here when we are old and can't make the stairs, then I don't necessarily have to move house. Or more optimistically, once the kids all move out I can use it as an extra downstairs space.

I don't understand all those commenting saying young families don't want a bungalow? We live in a bungalow and it's perfect as flexible accommodation, we change the use of rooms all the time and the kids have had playroom/bedrooms as everything is ground floor. In our street with 9 bungalows, 7 are occupied by young families.

I'd still do the too room though- flexibility. Top room can be an office, bedroom, guest room, second lounge

I'm on the top floor of a bungalow with my two teens downstairs. Its bliss. Yes, you will rule out certain parts of the market but you will get others desperate for it.

People have funny ideas about bungalows. They make great family homes. Large plots and ideal for open plan living. We have 3 bedrooms on the ground floor plus a bathroom and a converted loft with it's own shower room but its not a "proper" bedroom. There is a large lounge/kitchen extension on the back.

We all sleep downstairs and our room is also ensuite. But we'd have happily made upstairs into a master ensuite if it had been doable (it's not for various reasons). DCs are 8 and 3. We put a sofabed in the loft room and use it as a guest room/ den. Works fine.

We have teens. I'd love them to be upstairs and for us to have a master suite downstairs.

Generally a bungalow doesn't attract families with young children.

Depends where you are. In Scottish towns and cities the 'nice' areas are dominated by pre and post war bungalows. Very desirable. Usually have large gardens and have lots of scope for development.

3 floor house here .huge advantage with extra space .teens on a different floor is good when it comes to Xbox

I have a 5 year old and a 9 year old and would be very happy to buy a 3 storey house. Would probably have wanted bedrooms on the same floor when they were toddler/preschool age, but not a problem now

I too live in a dormer which has 2 large bedrooms upstairs and a smaller one downstairs (bathroom on each floor)
When DC were small they shared large upstairs and small down was a play room
As older DC we separated them and DS opted for small downstairs room - which he still has even though DD moved out he still loves having own private space
I now have a decent size guest bedroom
When DS moves out in next year or so I’m looking forward to having it as a ground floor study/hobby room
If I stay in house when older I could always sleep there myself if I couldn’t manage stairs!

Every house lay out will put somebody off - whatever you do you wont appeal to all the young families looking to buy in the area so I wouldn't worry about that too much if I'm honest.
For what it's worth we're in a Victorian terrace with us in the attic and the kids on the first floor and have been since they were teeny and it never occured to me to worry about it. Most of the houses round here are the same so finding a 3 bed with all the rooms on the same floor would be tricky and/or expensive.